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existential-cryptid · 1 year

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you go to fix yourself in the mirror, at this point it's more of an empty habit than an actual gesture.

your reflection has been missing for months now.

while washing your face, you hear a loud crash from your bedroom. you dash into the room, but nothing is there.

on your way out, you catch a glimpse in the mirror and startle. your reflection has returned, it's staring at your back with a wicked look on its face.

it looks misshapen, almost as if it's dying.

it cocks it's head to the side, as it slinks into the hallway. you suddenly miss it's prolonged absence

#midwest gothic #wisconsin gothic #cryptic #cryptid #american gothic #southern gothic #regional gothic #liminal #tw paranoia #tw psychosis #i rly dont wanna trigger anybody apologies #elder spirits #elder gods #borderline horror

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monifrpost · 6 months

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Me on a rainy day 💚

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afklancelot · 8 months

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i feel like seriously describing junji ito's horror works as simply "wouldn't it be fucked up if this happened" is dumb because it's such a vague description that most other horror works can also be described as that. For example:

"Wouldn't it be fucked up if your house suddenly started creating new rooms and changed its dimensions on you?" (House of Leaves, specifically The Navidson Record)

"Wouldn't it be fucked up if the doors, windows, and your parents suddenly disappeared out of nowhere?" (Skinamarink)

"Wouldn't it be fucked up if a clown in a sewer started killing kids?" (It)

among others.

Not to mention, most of Ito's works do have deeper meaning to them, specifically targetting japanese culture. This video touches on his shorter works, but even his larger works have metaphorical meaning.

Junji Ito describing his mindset on writing Gyo as "man it would suck if sharks had legs" is real funny, but it's also critiquing Japan's war crimes in WWII; the origin of the "legs" being from World War II when the Imperial Japanese Army was trying to create biochemical weapons cannot be a coincidence. Hellstar Remina is about a hostile alien planet, but it's also an allegory of fans turning on a girl because of something beyond her control, reminiscent of idol culture. Hell, even Uzumaki, probably one of his greatest "WTF" horror works, is also about a pair of teenagers being unable to escape their hometown, unable to expand their horizons in the outside world. they just keep going in circles, unable to escape.

I don't know, at this point describing Ito's works only being "wouldnt it be fucked up if this thing happened" is starting to feel like "the curtains are blue because the author likes the color blue" but like. for horror

#junji ito #gyo #uzumaki #hellstar remina #...#house of leaves and skinamarink (kinda)#i dont mind the jokes but seriously thinking it's just “this thing would be fucked up” is borderline lack of media literacy #horror #in general

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thapunqueen · 1 year

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okay boone, so we need you to RAWR for the camera (featuring a doodle or 2 of boone with hair bc i was just curious...)

#craig boone #fnv boone #fnv #fallout #fallout new vegas #fallout fanart #new vegas #i have 2 sides #silly cutesy baba baby boone art #and borderline vent art of boone #that whiskey bottle btw on the sink he uses as mouthwash #so take that headcanon with what you will #i can literally see in my head boone brushing his teeth #and then just #downing half a bottle of whiskey to rinse but he swallows instead and looks in the mirror in disgust #meanwhile arcade or someone just witnessed the absolute horror of it all and boone is just like WHAT.#okay ill stop rambling and go to bed now

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aueua · 2 years

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a door (noun) is a hinged, sliding, or revolving barrier at the—

#[art #.jpeg]#[2022.zip]#eyestrain #body horror #roblox doors #<- you are getting NO further tags than that #i don't know why i drew any of them like that. i'll figure out the direction i want to go with them another day #fighting for my life in the borderline of being desensitized and sensitized while looking at references #head in hands. OK! i am exiting STAGE RIGHT

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la1npilledg1rl · 3 months

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Hibernating…

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transterror · 23 days

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amanda young bpd flag

bpd flag themed after amanda young from the saw franchise.

completely free to use in any way you see fit without credit!

#lgbt #lgbtqia #mogai #gender coining #lgbtq #liom #neogender #xenogender #mogai coining #horror #sawposting #saw #saw franchise #bpd #bordergender #borderline #amanda young

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fenfuck · 1 year

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[SURVIVAL MODE]

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junebuggeryy · 1 year

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sweet toy soldier.

#im glad u guys seem to like my bot posting because i appear to be afflicted. possessed even #this is another one of those 'sits on the borderline between my scrapdump and polished artstyles' ones. auauauaouaaughhh #scrapdump #robotcore #steampunk #the nickelbots #SAD ROBOT: TWO #three? lucy please talk to me.#sad robot: the existential horror of mass production but not like how lucy does it #sad robot: in either case its an army so it maths out to more than two #robot. has sad in it #ok thats enough tag rambling im going to bed

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brittlebutch · 2 months

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actually it's kind of funny how people will say Alex's fatal flaw is that he 'doesn't ask for help' and that it's his determination to handle things on his own that leads to his deterioration and eventual death when his whole introduction to the present-day timeline was a very literal cry for help that simply went ignored

#N posts stuff #like even if you think alex was lying throughout the entirety of season 2 and he was waiting from the Moment jay showed up #JUST to kill him (Which again i don't think makes much sense when he could have killed Tim & Jay immediately instead of #breaking Tim's leg. anyway) EVEN IF alex spent that whole time lying it doesn't actually change the fact that he would have at least #been Pretending to Ask For Help and if he wasn't lying then he was Literally Asking For Help and it doesn't Actually matter #what intention Alex had because the text is Ambiguous about Alex's honesty during season two; what isn't ambiguous is the way #other characters (specifically Jay) respond to him; like yeah - S2 Brian/Tim were never in one million years going to help Alex with shit #so sort of any argument that brings up Tim as someone who asks for/offers help is borderline meaningless in this era of the series #Jay had the 'opportunity' to help Alex (and i'll get back to that in a sec) but DIDN'T - Jay wasn't Interested in actually offering Alex #'help' bc Jay is ultimately curious about Answers and 'Offering Help' and 'Getting Answers' are two Wildly conflicting goals #Jay thinks Alex has answers and when Alex doesn't Offer these 'Answers' to Jay on a silver platter Jay gets pissed off and paranoid #and starts Stalking Alex bc he thinks it's 'Suspicious' that Alex won't give him the Answers (that Alex probably doesn't Actually have)#ANYWAY. ultimately this post is about how it's absurd when people argue #that individual character choices could have made a difference in the way this series played out - specifically wrt Alex #because EVERYONE in this WHOLE series are being affected by influences outside of their control ; including Brian Tim and Jay #so it's silly when people are like 'if ALEX had just made a different choice For Himself this could have all been avoided' WRONG.#bc Ultimately there's not really a way to 'help' someone else out of this situation - Tim tried and failed Repeatedly #the comics proved he even failed with Jessica - like MH isn't a horror situation where you can kill the big bad #'getting help' is a meaningless argument - what would successfully helping or getting help even look like? anyway.#the sub argument of this post is that Alex's biggest 'sin' is that he doesn't perform emotions the way other people want him to #like Alex is a character with a kind of flat affect - instead of LOOKING scared or grieved he LOOKS bored or angry #and everyone judges him based on that - so Alex is 'Suspicious' he's 'Lying' he's 'Guilty' but all of these deductions are predicated #on the belief that Alex isn't reacting to his circumstances the way a 'Normal' person would - so it MUST all be an act and so he's guilty #so everyone treats him like he's guilty until the end of season two when he's like 'Fuck it FINE i'll be guilty then' and so it goes #not a self-fulfilled prophecy but being Cornered Into a prophecy and then Blamed for it - SAD. anyway

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princehoneytea · 1 year

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(ocs) some adopted guys ive been enjoying n altering... mostly ozzy

#im having like this confusion internally bc like #ive never been someone who bought adopts and stuff before #so im like...#i dont want to take credit for the concept even tho i change them a lot #like i do not know how adopt ettiquette works... if u kno please teach me #i like buying adopts and making them borderline unrecognizable bc its fun but i dont wanna like #take credit for the parts i didnt make!! BRO!!! IDK!!!!#princehoneytart #ocs #ozzy #aries #desiree #body horror cw #blood cw

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monifrpost · 6 months

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WHO TOOK MY!………. ………………..oh found it ❤️☺️

#hot as fuck #horrorbook #borderline personality disorder #2014 grunge #horror movie #movie quotes #lana del ray lyrics #moviegifs #movies #movie poster #funny stuff #funny shit #420memes #420daily #420buds #420photography #funny memes #funny

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accidentalslayer · 1 month

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Made by: wannaodin

#its always october in my brain #dark aesthetic #unreality #surrealism #surreal #surrealcore #horror #horrorcore #purple #purplecore #purple aesthetic #pixle art #motivation #darkcore #darkness #actually mentally ill #actually borderline #actually bpd

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naamahdarling · 9 months

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Oh shit I completely forgot about Lost Johns cave fuck that shit is horrifying

I think only 2 serial fiction podcasts have ever actually made me breathe a little too fast. The other was Limetown which...the Napoleon episode fucked me up (only episode I ever had to pause for a few seconds), as well as just the concept in general. But Magnus Archives in addition to being overall the best complete podcast I have listened to had a couple of real getters individually. MAG-15 Lost Johns Cave is one.

"It meant me harm."

And then when they played the recording back and I realized what she was saying my entire body just got cold.

Like, the reason I consume horror content isn't actually because it frightens me. It almost never does. So when it does more than unnerve and thrill me, it's doing a very good job. Congrats Jonny Sims for doing it a good two or three times in Magnus Archives.

By the way, the cave is real.

Here's how you go in.

Goodnight!

#two of the best horror movies ive ever seen weren't even horror movies #or werent marketed as such #the prestige is one #almost nobody appreciates it enough #and annihilation is another and shortlisted for movies that i will never ever watch again because i legit almost had to go throw up #borderline sorry i ever watched it and still occasionally think about that bear #it was a good movie but my god the body horror and existential dread and the infiltration of death into your treacherous body was HORRIFYIN #i was not sufficiently warned about annihilation #the prestige was a pleasant surprise even though i was curled up in the fetal position #because i figured out the twist EXACTLY when the movie wanted me to and it worked for me #it wasn't for everyone and my ex was pissed at it for quote cheating unquote #but i thought it had established the rules just fine in retrospect and it fell into place beautifully #i love horror deeply #i could talk about it all day

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welcometogrouchland · 4 months

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Steph on a desperate quest to get Damian to unwillingly incorporate informal gotham-isms into his speech by using "jabroni" in every other sentence

#ramblings of a lunatic #dc #steph: it's subliminal messaging #tim: i think with your goal in mind it's legally classified as psychological warfare #damian is in the middle of a dramatic monologue to a villain who's tried to hurt innocents and/or his family and it's borderline Shakespear #right up until the end where he says ''you craven feeble jabroni'' and he full on paralyzes in horror at what's become of him #it's so bad he can't even finish the fight. bruce has to step in and give the final blow and takes Stephanie aside after the case is closed #bruce in his 'about to fire you in the most emotionally insensitive way possible' voice: stephanie. what did you do #stephanie: my best. and it payed off #stephanie brown #damian wayne #i selected jabroni as the word bc of pure whimsy reasons #I'm open to suggestions on what would be more accurate to greater northern new jersey where gotham is allegedly located

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trepanninq · 1 year

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I’M NOT GONNA HELP YOU, AND I’M NOT GONNA SAVE YOU, BUT YOU WON’T LET ME BE.

#no you won't let me beeeeeeee #moecide #wolves #werewolves #werewolf #werewolfkin #furry #furry art #sfw furry #horror #cptsd #codependency #trauma bonding #borderline #actuallyborderline #bpd

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